Corsair Performance Series 3 Reviews?

[bargetrav]

Looking to buy the 128GB version as I want the latest/greatest now but I'm very hesitant without any full reviews of the drive, what is going on with that? They are out and available yet no one has reviewed them?


I know I've seen people show that they deliver the advertised throughput, but what about all the other benchmarks like random reads/writes that are so important?

 

[Castiel]

 

[bargetrav]

Seen, it, it's one user who was having noted problems with his 1155 chipset. As stated, I'm looking for professional reviews.

 

[Castiel]

Seen, it, it's one user who was having noted problems with his 1155 chipset. As stated, I'm looking for professional reviews.

I was looking for some as well. I was thinking about getting one.

 

[phillyman36]

Ive seen some people saying that those 2 scores on this drive are a little disappointing.Can someone explain or point me in the direction of what the 4k and 4k-64thrd means and what would that affect?

 

[bargetrav]

bump, where are these corsair???

 

[XLNC]

Something is definitely fishy with these. While I trust Corsair and like their products, it doesn't seem like they sent out review samples to any sites. I wish some of the larger sites (AT, Tom's) would either purchase these drives for review or have volunteers send them in.

 

[Emulex]

corsair is the go-bots of cheap ram - why would you expect quality?

the rank down there with g.skill - and would you use a g.skill? lol.

maybe on a ghetto blaster build.

 

[bargetrav]

This is supposed to be Corsair's flagship drive, equal to the new C400 from Crucial, etc. Why is there almost no information about this product?

 

[QueBert]

corsair is the go-bots of cheap ram - why would you expect quality?

the rank down there with g.skill - and would you use a g.skill? lol.

maybe on a ghetto blaster build.

I used their ram for years and never had a problem. And the G.Skill Ripjaw gets great reviews. Now OCZ memory I'd stay away from, but outside of maybe Crucial, Corsair would be my memory of choice.

 

[Emulex]

n/m

 

[Yellowbeard]

times have changed. they are all the same relatively speaking. company rep'd by an outside firm with some english folks manning a virtual office.

if i told you in 3 years ocz/g.skill/corsair were "usa" run out of the same office by 1 dude would that surprise you? the rest of the world outsources everything to rep firms now. more than you would imagine.

Nothing wrong with the go-bots man. But they aren't the transformers and definitely not some macross

I'm missing parts of your analogy but, I can assure that you you can remove our name from that grouping. Not gonna happen. LOL. That makes me chuckle.

 

[Yellowbeard]

Here is the first P3 review I have seen:

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/38...ies_256gb_solid_state_drive_review/index.html

 

[pjkenned]

I ordered one of these (128GB). Wanted to get a few more to replace the 64GB Sandforce drives in the ZFS test server and to run through some 6.0gbps RAID controller/ HBA testing that I wanted to start doing. At current pricing, they are a bit expensive at the moment so will probably add later.

 

[bargetrav]

Well that one review is pretty good, although it mentions that 4k is low, but only says to save for longevity? I don't give a rats ass if my drives only lasts 5 years vs 10 years, I want better performance.

 

[sticks435]

Well that one review is pretty good, although it mentions that 4k is low, but only says to save for longevity? I don't give a rats ass if my drives only lasts 5 years vs 10 years, I want better performance.

Read it again. It's not to prolong drive life, it's to keep the drive running at full speed for all it's write cycles/% full. Once you write to NAND once, it no longer can write at full speed. This is supposed to prevent that.

 

[gundersausage]

Read it again. It's not to prolong drive life, it's to keep the drive running at full speed for all it's write cycles/% full. Once you write to NAND once, it no longer can write at full speed. This is supposed to prevent that.

Does the article just assume it will run at full speed over time? how would you test for that in the short term?

 

[sticks435]

Does the article just assume it will run at full speed over time? how would you test for that in the short term?

It's on Corsair's website. Perhaps Yellowbeard can chime in on this.

Performance that lasts for the long haul

Most solid-state drives are fast right out of the box, but many of those same drives slow down over time. Corsair Performance 3 Series SSDs offer more robust background garbage collection for consistent read and write speeds from day 1 to day 101.

According to tweaktown, they would test by filling up the drive with non-benchmark data, and testing at different fill rates.

In this chart we have the original benchmark runs with the drives empty and we have added the results of the drives with 133GB of data added. Things look quite a bit different now. The SandForce SF-1200 drive dropped performance across the board, but the Corsair Performance 3 actually gained some performance in some tests and lost very little in others.
Over time we will expand this type of coverage and include performance data from drives filled with 25%, 50% and 75% fill. The Corsair Performance 3 moved this type of testing up in this somewhat beta run. We felt that this story adds to the total picture and ignoring it would have led to a half truth review of the Performance 3.

 

[Emulex]

i doubt corsair has fixed their sf-12xx drives - cold boot, sleep, pata->sata converters (working = equivalent timings to intel ssd or seagate hdd) - makes you wonder if its reference firmware again.

 

[gundersausage]

Just noticed they have been released here in Australia for awhile, no fanfare at all.

 

[Yellowbeard]

It's on Corsair's website. Perhaps Yellowbeard can chime in on this.

I can check with engineering. Most likely, initially we'll get the generic marketing explanation then, like with the SandForce technologies, the rest of the explanation is secret and proprietary.

i doubt corsair has fixed their sf-12xx drives - cold boot, sleep, pata->sata converters (working = equivalent timings to intel ssd or seagate hdd) - makes you wonder if its reference firmware again.

That's been fixed since last year in October. The remaining exceptions are a miniscule amount of people that mostly consist of notebook users that have the issue relating to how their notebook deals with sleep/hibernate/low power states etc.

 

[Emulex]

yet the problem is non existant with indilinx/samsung/intel. i HOPE that the new sandforce eliminates this 100% as nobody wants to be put in that miniscule situation.

hay yellowbeard don't take it too seriously - i think it's cool you rep in this forum. +1 over your competitors. i'll retract my statement about grouping you guys with ocz/adata etc.

 

[Yellowbeard]

yet the problem is non existant with indilinx/samsung/intel. i HOPE that the new sandforce eliminates this 100% as nobody wants to be put in that miniscule situation.

hay yellowbeard don't take it too seriously - i think it's cool you rep in this forum. +1 over your competitors. i'll retract my statement about grouping you guys with ocz/adata etc.

No worries man. AT is a tough crowd at times but it's typically because the regulars here are well informed.

By the way, I'm 25m west of you in Douglasville.

L8R.